[Haskell-cafe] Data.ByteString.dropWhile

[Thomas Conway]

Well, maybe I shoud be asking a higher level question then.

I have a function

tidy = reverse . dropWhile punk . reverse . dropWhile punk
    where
    punk = isPunctuation . chr . fromIntegral

which is leading to a significant amount of allocation, and you can see why.

The way I'd like to write it is

tidy = dropWhile punk . dropWhileEnd punk
    where ....

which has the obvious advantage of avoiding quite a bit of
intermediate allocation.

Is there a another way?

I note that since I'm using a nice declarative language, the compiler
CLEARLY should be transforming the first form into the second. :-)

T.
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